Improvement in boxing-gloves



G. J. GLOVER.

Boxing-Glove.

No. 220,281. Patented Oct. 7,1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. GLOVER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOXING-GLOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,28 l, dated October 7,1879; application filed July 17, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. GLOVER, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Boxing-Gloves, of which the following is a specification.

Boxing-gloves are usually made with separate places for the fingers and thumb, and with the backs padded. This involves the use of a large number of separate pieces in the construction of the glove, and increases the cost of the same. Gloves of this character are also objectionable because the hand can be opened and used to slap an opponent in a manner that sometimes peels the skin, and the thumb and fingers can be used to scratch if the person using the same is so inclined.

The object of the present invention is to sim plify the construction, to render the glove cheaper, and to compel the person using the same to keep the hand clinched, so that an undue advantage cannot be taken of an opponent.

My glove is made somewhat in the form of two bags, one Within the other, the inner one being of a size to receive the clinched fist. The outer one is larger, so that padding is introduced between the two to completely envelop-the back, the fingers, and the thumb of the hand; and there is a flexible handle crossingfrom one side of the glove to the other, which is grasped in the clinched fist to keep the glove in its place on the hand. There are ventilators at the sides.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a section of the glove as on the hand. Fig. 2 is a section at the line as w, and Figs. 3 and 4 represent the material for the glove as cut out.

The outer covering, a, is preferably in one piece; but two or more pieces may be used. The same extends over the back of the hand, and is brought back again and sewed together at the seams 1 2 to surround the wrist.

The inner material, b, may be made up into the shape of a bag to cover the hand; but where the ventilators c are introduced in the outer fabric it is unnecessary to have a double thickness; therefore the inner material will usually be sewed to the outer material, a, at the line 8.

The space between the outer material, a, and inner material, I), is to be padded with suitable material, and it is preferable to use nearly the same amount of padding at each side, so that either part can be used at the back of the hand.

The flexible handle h extends from one side of the glove to the other, the outer covering, a, being, by preference, cut so asto turn inwardly at the parts 4 and be gathered up and attached to the flexible handle.

In use, the hand is inserted into the glove, and the fingers passed over the handle, so as to grasp the same in clinching the fist.

This glove prevents the person who uses the same slapping, scratching, or gouging an opponent.

The ventilators are simply openings in the kid or other material at c, and covered with netting or crocheted disks.

I claim as my invention 1. The boxing-glove made of outer and inner material, without finger or thumb pieces, the inner space for the closed fist being provided with a handle crossing the same, and the glove being padded, as set forth.

2. The combination, in aboxing-glove, of an inner bag for the closed hand, an outer bag of larger size, and padding between the two that extends equally, or nearly so, along the back and at the opposite side of the closed hand, as set forth.

Signed by me this 7th day of July, A. D. 1879.

CHARLES J. GLOVER.

Witnesses:

GEO. R. TRUMAN, PETER FLETCHER. 

